26 Songs in 30 Days: Greg Vandy’s book about Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs
A history book by local authors about music created in the Pacific Northwest? Of course I was going to read to 26 Songs in 30 Days:…
Bread & Wine: Fantagraphics reissues a timeless romantic masterpiece about a dystopian prophet and a homeless man
It all started with an act of kindness to a passer-by. A man saw a paperback copy of Norman Podheretz's Making It as part of a…
Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All
Hard Listening is the biography of a rock supergroup (consisting mostly of best-selling authors) that lasted for twenty years (playing to audiences that consisted mostly…
Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace
Even though he’s not from around here, it would be hard to name any single person who has had more influence on Seattle’s indie music…
TIG wraps up the year with the Best Music Writing tour
There is a feeling of neurotic helplessness I sometimes suffer from; when I realize I live in a world where I have the freedom to…
Deep Focus: Books on They Live and Death Wish give you lots to think about and geek out on
Deep Focus is a new line of small but richly rewarding studies, the first one about a favorite film by a great writer, Christopher Sorrentino.…
Reality heightened with noir style in three mind-bending new titles from Fantagraphics
For those who were thrilled by the tribute to film noir at this year's Seattle International Film Festival, and are craving that same sexy, dark…
The punk rock life and unsolved death of the mastermind behind "New Wave Theatre" is extraordinary reading
Have you ever seen Eraserhead? In David Lynch's first B&W Surrealist mind-hump of a movie, there is scene with a little song the "Lady in…
New Bomb Turks frontman writes essential tome on punk from 1988-2001
"We've always been of the mind that it's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask for permission." --Eddie Spaghetti, The Supersuckers. So begins…
Punk comics Love & Rockets creator will be at Emerald City Con this weekend
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atWbirC77SY] This weekend (Saturday and Sunday, March 13 and 14) Seattle area comics fans have a big old funny book hootenanny to party at inside…